Earlier in the week, one of my colleagues commented one of the slides I had prepared on the digital enterprise. His question was simple, the digital enterprise, what is it? So, I took the opportunity to describe what I understand with the term and how I believe it will change the way our companies operate. McKinsey, Gartner and others are embracing the term, each maybe with different nuances, but it all comes down to how technology can transform the way companies operate. HP's "New Style of IT" is the information technology answer to the digital enterprise. But let's look at some of the aspects associated to this new style. The world is increasingly digital, mobile, virtual and personal. What does that mean for enterprises?

The drumbeat is starting. Even on TV you see advertising about the internet of things. New acronyms are created on the fly. We better get familiar with IoT, M2M and a number of others. Zettabytes of data are created according to the specialists. OK, all of this is fine, but what is the end-to-end story behind this.

Ready to develop a new application to be located in the cloud, what do you need to look for? What decisions do you need to take upfront? In this blogpost I describe the 6 key questions you need to ask yourself prior to start coding, so you take full advantage of the cloud and address the needs of your business users. make sure you take the right decisions so you can delight your users. Being it the target cloud, whether you mobile enable, scale-up/scale-down, access data, integrate your application, or develop it using agile methodologies, it's important those decisions are taken upfront.

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Christian is responsible for building services focused on advising clients in their move to cloud, particularly from a business process and application perspective, and establishing a global community to deliver those services to our customers worldwide.